Create The Best Splash | Full Task | Taskmaster

From series 4, Hugh Dennis, Joe Lycett, Lolly Adefope, Mel Giedroyc, and Noel Fielding attempt to create the biggest and best splash.
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In this Broadcast Award-winning, BAFTA and Emmy Award-nominated entertainment show, Taskmaster tyrant Greg Davies (Man Down, Cuckoo), with the help of his loyal assistant Alex Horne (The Horne Section and the show’s creator), sets out to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of five hyper-competitive comedians.
Comedians that have risked life, limb, and dignity in the hope of making the Taskmaster proud so far include: Frank Skinner (The Frank Skinner Show), Mel Giedroyc (The Great British Bake Off), Romesh Ranganathan (Asian Provocateur), Hugh Dennis (Outnumbered), Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’ Diary), Rose Matafeo (Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2018), and Russell Howard (The Russell Howard Hour). Unaware of what awaits them in each wax-sealed envelope, only one competitor can become the victorious owner of His Royal Task-ness’ golden head and be crowned the next Taskmaster Champion.

[@MrR2TheZ]

"I think this could be a possibly all female..."

[@thegamingbro123]

Don’t wanna be smug though 🙅‍♀️

[@MrCh0o]

I think she said "an old female", implying herself

[@AmericanMysticDegenerate]

@@MrCh0o she said all

[@gocubs2224]

@@AmericanMysticDegenerate definitely "an old female" (win)

[@SuperNobody64]

Was it Morse Code?

[@SpidermanFan92]

"I wanted to climb higher but was told to stop" "You're 55 Hugh" That's fair

[@kurtsudheim825]

At least they cared about his well being, moreso than Meeks

[@Ravenleaf182]

It's nice you can tell the order in which they were actually filmed based on how Alex prepared for subsequent splashes

[@CC-yx2rt]

I’m guessing Hugh, noel, Lolly or Mel, joe, in that order

[@khajiithadwares2263]

If you look closely 4:26 , you'll notice the exact moment where dangerous waters became the priority put above Hugh's hostile height discernment

[@CC-yx2rt]

So maybe lolly or Mel went before Noel

[@kurtsudheim825]

Plus the sun, & him wearing gloves

[@Soloman_Gumball]

@@kurtsudheim825 They're not filmed on the same day. Contestants will film a bunch of their tasks back to back and the day each contestant does theirs is different to fit around their busy schedules. The only ones filmed together are the group ones, and even then the two groups do them at different times, when the 2/3 are available to work together.

[@gyroscope915]

I love how joe climbing a ladder has tons of safety equipment but old man hugh climbs a random beam with a brick tucked in his shirt without so much as a glove in sight

[@anjilashrestha9169]

I laughed so hard while reading this comment oml XD

[@EthalaRide]

AND asked Alex to throw a hammer at him.

[@alexisz5570]

Noel climbed a ladder in heels. Were they insane? His shoes had zero grip.

[@spaceracer23]

Noel won, but also lost. Wining got him 5 points. Coming in 2nd behind Mel would have given him 9 points.

[@carrottopevans]

Man I’ve gotta work on my maths

[@michaelccozens]

@@carrottopevans Game theory; the place where the fun of gambling goes to die.

[@kaldo_kaldo]

@@krank23 Only stupid people though

[@ironicallyscreaming]

Wait but where do the extra 5 points come from?

[@nvv4]

@@ironicallyscreaming the part where they should predict the winner for 5 points. It's in this video mate ;)

[@sparo_splat]

Joe wrecking the bucket with the ball, what an absolute lad.

[@TeamMemberNumberEight]

OI OI!

[@gr6e]

2:23 I was thinking this the whole time they were all struggling with the telescope. James Acaster would have just walked right past the telescope and ripped the note off the wall

[@LiteDisc]

"What? Did the crow win?" God the overarching crow story of this task is genuinely one of my favourite moments through the show's life. This is definitely a top 10 task from the show.

[@heyshaydee]

Tell me you’ve seen the potato into the whole with out stepping on the red green, and that it’s not just as good if not better!

[@sashamurokh4053]

Hugh with a brick in his shirt led me to concern that he was trying to be the heaviest possible from a 5 meter dive into a pool

[@ConnorVide]

Same. Thought he was gonna jump into the bucket lol lol

[@echognomecal6742]

I had a moment of concern as well lol

[@konstantinkostov3357]

Noel bossed the whole series. One of the few contestants that combined bants with skills all the way through.

[@scattypetty]

Joe obliterating the bucket is the funniest thing I've ever seen. The music makes it even better. I have watched it 50 times in a row and it still takes me tf out.

[@behemothbear]

3:01 is one of my favorite Taskmaster moments ever.

[@YinYangLogo]

I was eating noodles while watching this video and inhaled one when that happened

[@thegamingbro123]

Reminds me of when Romesh smashed the watermelon 😂

[@gyroscope915]

He looked so surprised that the bucket self destructed

[@adh0c468]

Perhaps the real splash was the friends we made along the way.

[@echognomecal6742]

underrated comment

[@darrellmcalister320]

The telescope thing was genius. They all read the task through it for no reason.

[@pein260]

I can't imagine Noel being anything less than a magnificently genuine human being

[@themug406]

He might well be but all youve seen is him on some tv, he might be awful in the rest of his life

[@sophiajohannabrauner126]

Hugh is such a dad with his phone case 😭😄 that's EXACTLY how my dad handles his phone

[@albasmith5824]

I love how Joe Lycett kissed Greg before going outdoors😂

[@flamingarbre1284]

"Well he often wears things like feathers, so in my minds eye I saw a big ol' splash and sort of a drowned, feathery..." "Crow" And the crow won!

[@Arrowtomahknee]

"I'll tell you how it won't be, that that who dresses like a crow!" Noel is a goddamn treasure

[@KarthikeyaBetha]

Alex: You're 55! Hugh: looks at Alex Me: fair enough

[@bobsnow4890]

Surely some of her spray hit the top of the house based on how she was spraying it.

[@landlockedlifeguard]

Joe throwing the bowling ball full force at the bucket and watching it shatter is me trying out anything new for the first time.

[@ch4.hayabusa]

5:32 That is the most informative demonstration of the use of metric in the UK I've ever seen. When you need yards, you switch to meters instead. It sounds like the, let's not talk about it and hope our children do better, approach.

[@brianabraham8726]

Noel Fielding really created a mighty whoosh!

[@fedos]

That telescope is a perfect example of how easy it is to condition people.

[@ciaranlynch2128]

Surely lollie got a splash on top of the roof

[@dontdieSECond]

Since the task said "highest splash" not "biggest splash" my first instinct was to be a smart alec and write the word "splash" on a piece of paper and then get that on the roof somehow, thus getting the splash that I wrote on the paper as high as the roof...was kinda hoping someone would go a non water route cuz of that lmao

[@anm00727]

I was thinking the same. My initial idea was write the word splash on a tennis ball or something and throw upwards from a high point.

[@craigcrissman4651]

Honestly Mel should have won based on that too. She created a splash at the highest height. Just because her splash wasn't very large didn't mean it was lower than the others.

[@rizkyanandita8227]

They will not be allowed to get on the roof. Every series someone tried to get on the roof.

[@TheToastedTurkey]

@@craigcrissman4651 From what it sounds like, they did measure it based off of that. Noel's splash just went higher (5.1 meters) than the spot on the clock where Mel sprayed/splashed (4.5 meters)

[@sandhyaravichandran9666]

Can't wait for season 12 !! 😬😬😬

[@henrymiranda8415]

Love that Alex wears a bow tie only for Mel lol

[@LevelUpLeo]

I honestly wish he wore it more now.

[@henrymiranda8415]

@@LevelUpLeo on the TMP he said that he only wears it for Mel since she is the only person he respects lmao

[@wienerwald5446]

@@henrymiranda8415 i love how the abbreviation caught on, Ed Gamble would be so proud

[@mrknarf4438]

British humor is brilliant. So harsh, yet no one gets offended and they all laugh about it because it's just that good and not mean spirited.

[@Unicat9]

I've officially seen all of taskmaster series, and watched probably all of compilations. What ever shall I do with my life till COC2 and season 12?

[@michaelccozens]

There's a podcast!

[@MuzzloffPlay]

Damn that is most enterteining sht i have seen in years.. good job =)

[@Elmerphant]

Never underestimate Noel "The Crow" Fielding 😝 He's an artist down to is molecules so he thinks amazingly 👏

[@chewar7537]

Just love Noel, and Mel!

[@captainchaos3667]

Poor Lolly looked genuinely gutted.

[@alexisz5570]

She was robbed here. His logic made sense. Greg has said he knows he's made massive errors. I wonder if this is one of them.

[@WalkaCrookedLine]

When Noel gathered multiple buckets I was quite puzzled, until it became clear he was testing different techniques. Then I was like Noel is doing SCIENCE! My man!

[@MatMcB]

Noel gives just enough of a shit to have it ALWAYS be surprising when he wins, but he wins a lot of the time. It's something only Noel could pull off.

[@RockismyAir]

Noels splash was glorious. Calling Noel the crow just melted me.

[@EthalaRide]

My first thought for this task was "I'm going to get onto the top of the roof with a cup of water, and make a splash with my hand/finger while I hold it as high as possible."

[@zakattak167]

No one asked you to look through the telescop

[@egric6384]

I mean, there's a river nearby, someone should've jumped into it to make a splash

[@reedfreund5726]

My family made a plan to force Alex to do it

[@ChickenGeorgeClooney]

But I imagine the river is of a lower altitude than the house, thus making it a lower splash.

[@Eugen1344]

It is easier to throw some water in the air and then hit it upwards with a table tennis paddle, or any flat object really

[@PerigeeParrot]

Or go to any 3 story building and dump a cup of water on the floor

[@nabinnyc]

that awkward practice splashes not-handshake 🤣❤️

[@mrgoober8805]

The taskmaster looks like the guy from the Christmas episode of Doctor Who where he was just a head attached to a robot body

[@beth12svist]

That's probably because it is him. ;-)

[@co20ca05]

6:58 subtle, guys, but we all know

[@GabrielsLogic]

Lmaooo

[@TERKO62]

I'm sure the hose splashed at the roof of the house if you wanna be completely fair...

[@michaelccozens]

I thought so too, but somebody else observed that Lolly was pointing the hose away from the house when she was on the ladder, so it missed entirely.

[@jessalyngrant-bier8219]

Lolly deserved better. There’s no way that water wasn’t also hitting her, the building, or Alex. Not to mention that it hits the hose as it is sprayed and so is technically already a rebound.

[@Danonymous5000]

Plus, but that logic, the boys should all have their heights based on the bucket height, not how high the water flew up.

[@LUCKYFETT]

hue noll and mel are such lovable people

[@parryyotter]

I was so proud of Noel’s drop 😂

[@marchhare]

Seems like if they're measuring from where the water hit something, then Noel's should also be measured from where it came back down and hit the bucket (or all the way down to the ground as well)? If they're measuring how high the water went before it hits something, then Lolly's should have counted!

[@timaeus7781]

noel's water hit the bowling ball he catapulted into it i'm pretty sure.

[@richardd3367]

2:25 *Exactly*, Greg. :)

[@reedfreund5726]

My mom's plan for this challenge would have been to make Alex do a cannonball into the river nearby

[@BuddyIsGarbage]

Why didnt they just fill the bucket and throw it to the top of the house? Surely that would have gotten a high splash.

[@beth12svist]

Maybe... try throwing a full bucket of water and see for yourself how much of it gets really high and how much of it gets _on you?_ :D

[@BuddyIsGarbage]

@@beth12svist maybe not 100% full, but just enough to still be able to throw it.

[@maiarg2483]

One of my fave batch

[@evilturkey523]

I can't stop watching the part where Joe breaks the bucket

[@JeffreyPizarro]

Please upload series 9. Is the only one that is not on this channel :(

[@Fabelaz]

this was sweet

[@GripTightThin]

I love Lolly in Ghosts!

[@ospreyphil8995]

I love how all the men had a similar idea and both the girls had a similar idea 😂😂

[@YouBazinga]

Noel "The crow!" Fielding. It suits him, I must say.

[@q7nator847]

Here for the great British baking show hosts

[@segevstormlord3713]

I have only seen half of it so far, but it occurs to me that if you climbed up on the house and splashed water out of a glass held over your head, you'd have the highest splash of anybody thus far.

[@EDIAV42]

I was expecting a cannonball into a pool kind of splash honestly.

[@michaelccozens]

My first thought was a cannonball off the bridge into the nearby river, but the contestants smartly observed that nothing prevented them from raising the source of the splash to add to the overall height.

[@scottbeale1825]

I just realized Noel is Old Gregg

[@lordrampenthump422]

5:01 Skeletor!

[@echognomecal6742]

Noel is such a dear

[@thelonelytuba1972]

Climb on top of the house and bring the bucket with you, then the elevation of the splash is higher to start with

[@lillianfolsom6741]

I love Noel

[@RockismyAir]

Same.

[@LRZN96]

*THAT SUN IS FUCKING BRIGHT*

[@a_921]

I wonder if there was a kiddie pool anywhere. I imagined somebody "diving" (belly flopping) into it,

[@shigeroo12]

“Because she used her brain… but just not enough”

[@thegamerdudeabides]

I wonder why no one thought to go to the river that is close, that they always show in other episodes.

[@tabelaskade4888]

Lolly always works harder but never smarter 🤣

[@kurtsudheim825]

Hey high, at least they care more about you hurting yourself! Depending on whether the height was measured from the ground or from the waters starting height, I would've climbed in the roof

[@Siriusly10]

Where does Noel get his clothes from?? I’m living for it tho

[@LiMCRiMZ]

I can't believe the men who thought to climb didn't just throw a bucket of water in the air above themselves. What the fuck.

[@arvetis]

By this definition of a splash, Noel should have lost, because raising the point of the splash doesn't change the height above that point the splash goes.

[@nidodson]

I'm the lunatic that would have went into the roof and cause a splash on the top of the chimney, then argue that it wasn't clear in the instructions if the height of the splash itself was high or the height of where the splash happens.

[@Lagonas_]

What was the whole point of climbing that pole if you spray up on the clock? You could've done that from the ground pointing to the clock.

[@jamesflames6987]

She was initially just going for a high spray, but then realised while she was doing it that it needed to strike an object.

[@Lowekinder]

I was going to call foul on Noel because they measured from the ground not the bucket, but I suppose some of those drops splashed off the wall and him so the crow did indeed win assuming he was as high as the clock. Hard to tell. I take taskmaster very seriously.

[@michaelccozens]

I think, in Noel's case, the splash had already taken place as the force driving the water out of the bucket, so no additional contact was needed. Lolly and Mel needed contact because their original driving force was a spray, not a splash. The task was also the "highest" splash, not the "tallest", which would be more likely arguable as the height of the splash itself, rather than the overall altitude reached. A 1-inch splash on top of a 5-story building is technically "higher" than a 10-foot splash at ground level, even though the latter is undeniably "taller" than the former, for example. TM is meant to be taken seriously. That's what makes it fun! Supreme effort at the mercy of Greg's capricious will.

[@Lowekinder]

@@michaelccozens Thats interesting. I don't think I'd ever interpret "highest splash" as splash at the highest altitude if I were the taskmaster. But that's why you need Greg's clammy but firm hand at the helm.

[@michaelccozens]

@@Lowekinder Greg seems to accept other interpretations if the contestants can make a persuasive-enough argument. It encourages lateral thinking and more-varied approaches, which is more entertaining. There's a fair bit of semantic wrangling over the seasons. Great fun!

[@mgnapping]

Remember when a basket wouldn't shatter in pieces if you look at it funny? Pepperidge farm remembers..

[@junghunt8645]

Yes, you wouldn’t want to get water near exposed power lines. God knows they’ve never been exposed to water before.

[@Orangecatinahoodie]

Alex should wear a bow tie more, it looks nice

[@Patrickpettibone-lo2rp]

You know at any point they could have walked over and read the task.

[@ishakigoshmier550]

I would have dropped the bucket

[@Psiberzerker]

Nobody's sure about Noel. He's an absurdist. He may very well roll a joint to get the "highest" splash.

[@arvetis]

Did they film all of Noel's things on one day, or does he just wear that yellow skeleton jumper every time he shows up?

[@potato-rn4eh]

i feel like if Noel hadn’t put his bucket on the ladder, Mel would’ve won. they measured hers from the ground up and Noel’s from the bucket rim up, but the bucket was a few feet off the ground. the measuring stick started at the ground. so was his splash really that high? we’ll never know

[@ravenshade266]

Well, that’s exactly why he put it on the ladder. Height was the factor in question, after all.

[@nimedbuel]

3:11 yeah, me...

[@Xanderviceory]

I truly want nothing more in life than to be a contestant on this show, but theres no way at this point ill become famous enough to even come close to being on it

[@michaelccozens]

It would be a pretty-fun group activity if someone could franchise the concept for the general public, a la escape rooms. Would be hard to keep the tasks a surprise, though, and insurance would probably have a fit.

[@brianl5194]

If they had put there thumb over the hose and sprayed it, would that have counted? That’s technically a splash

[@js0988]

Mel's just sore about Noel stealing her Bake Off gig.

[@Gravekeeperx]

So the hoses had to hit something but the buckets just had to go high?

[@michaelccozens]

The hoses were a spray, so the spray needed to hit something to splash off it. The water in the buckets was already splashing off whatever was dropped into them (or the sides of the bucket, or other parts of the water, if you want to get technical).

[@rententee]

Technically, wouldn't the water be splashing off the lip of the hose?

[@michaelccozens]

I think that one would be hard to argue, given the definition they used. If water was splashing off the lip, you'd get quite a lot of divergent spray from the mouth of the hose, as opposed to a contained stream of water.

[@oedhelsetren]

One could argue Mel made multiple attempts when she repeatedly waved the hose trying to hit a new mark.

[@nananina982]

this video is edited stupidly. I thought loly splashed the wind sign

[@theunburnedmonkey7953]

Has anyone taugh of just going to alex and stealing his whistle?

[@yake222]

For the crows!

[@dubliam8064]

I'd have just made a water balloon went to the tallest building in the nearby town and go to the roof to throw it up there

[@turbanheadless]

Sad for lolly

[@jrocksburr2724]

I like how they use the imperial system even though they’re in the uk 😂

[@msai257]

You do know which empire "imperial" refers to, right?

[@jrocksburr2724]

@@msai257 no clue tbh

[@craigcrissman4651]

@@jrocksburr2724 it's imperial because it was from the British Empire

[@azpiazu]

@@craigcrissman4651 I always thought it was the Galactic Empire, but then I always fountd it weird that it was used before the 70's. My guess was always time travel but your theory might have a point.

[@Sabrina-jl4sp]

I'm not understanding why Mel's was good but Loly's wasn't. Surely she got some water to "splash" on the roof. That's what I would have argued.

[@BelgianCat]

Loly's hose didn't face the roof, it was facing the opposite way. None of the water could've splashed on the roof (very clear @ 6:31)